Your takeaways This course is a great way to help you: • Read the basic code in most high-level languages; • Choose the appropriate programming language for a specific need; • Create and interpret ...

Run BASIC is a great idea and you easily could imagine versions for Perl and Ruby as well as truly interactive versions, perhaps in Flash, so that animation and more sophisticated graphics could ...

The Microsoft MakeCode platform is a free online blocks-based programming tool that's used to write the code that tells the micro:bit hardware what you want it to do. It’s very easy to use and ...

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday these days, and it all started with the Altair Basic program. Bill Gates has now published its source code. 50 years after the founding of Microsoft ...

Gates and his co-founder, Paul Allen, reached out to the company to pitch an interpreter of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800.